Standard Gabrielt language
| Gabrielt | |
|---|---|
| មដឌុកន់ឣម្រាឃនិ Mada Dzukan Amragyani | |
| Native to | Gabrielland |
| Region | Southern Gabrielland |
| Ethnicity | Gabrielts |
Native speakers | Total:190 million (2020) |
Gabrieltic
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| Modified Prei Script | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Gabrielland Dokodo Union |
| Regulated by | Gabrielt Language Preservation Center |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | gb |
| ISO 639-2 | gab |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Standard Gabrielt (Gabrielt: មដឌុកន់ឣម្រាឃនិ, Mada Dzukan Amragyani), colloquially known as plainly Gabrielt (Gabrielt: មដឌុកន, Mada Dzukan), is a Gabrieltic language of the Central Gabrielt branch which serves as the official standardized language of Gabrielland spoken by a total of 190 million speakers distributed throughout the country, as well as several small pockets of minorities in other Dokodo Union states and other neighboring countries. Standard Gabrielt should be contrasted with the Central Gabrielt languages, from which the language is based on.
Standard Gabrielt serves as the lingua franca of the nation, and is the sole language of instruction in schools in the Gabrielland region of the country. In the New Frontier and Arsyan Realms, the language serves as a second langauge to facilitate the differences between the native languages and the rest of the country, and is taught to children as a second language, but outside of academic and formal situations, the language is not used that often. Standard Gabrielt also serves as the neutral dialect or language across the wide array of regional Gabrielt languages which are not mutually intelligible with one another, as they form a dialect continuum. As a result, standard Gabrielt is mostly a written language for ethnic Gabrielt people, as ethnic Gabrielts would use their own regional language or dialect to communicate in daily occurences.
The language was artificially created in 1926 during the congress of all-Gabrielts as a way to further unify the newly-formed country with a neutral and easy-to-learn language for all Gabrielts, including the ethnic Arsyans which do not speak the language. The Central Gabrielt languages which was seen as the de-facto lingua franca at that time due to the capital's influence was chosen as the base of the standard language not only because of its influence but due to its central proximity and location in the middle of the expansive dialect continuum being very suitable and mimicking features of other regional languages, so that other Gabrielts learning the language would have an equal amount of difficulty in learning the new standard language. As of 2019, 99% of Gabrielts are reported to be able to understand Standard Gabrielt.
The Prei script is used to write Standard Gabrielt, as the script was already being used to write the various regional languages of Gabrielland even before the advent of the new standard language came to place in the late 1920s. Usage of the Latin script has grown over the past few decades with Gabrielland joining the Dokodo Union and with the country entering an era of rapid globalization, however, the government has stated that the Prei script will continue to be used for virtually all aspects when dealing with Standard Gabrielt, and is Gabrielland's one of two official scripts, the other one being the Arsyan script solely used to write the various Arsyan languages.